Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Milledgeville, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Milledgeville who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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